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| Author | : Fred Codoni |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0738531219 |
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad--the Redwood Empire Route--once stretched its shining track from Humboldt Bay to San Francisco Bay. Created by the amalgamation of 42 different companies, the North Coast railroad network ranged from the Sonoma Prismoidal, an early wooden monorail, to broad-gauge logging lines built to be hauled by horses. In between were the two-foot Sonoma Magnesite Railroad, the narrow-gauge North Pacific Coast, and standard-gauge lines. Determining the route of major highways, this versatile transportation system also incorporated electric interurbans, ferry steamboats, sternwheel riverboats, tugs, car f loats, and unusual connectors like funiculars and scenic tourist railways. From the time of its formation in 1907 until the 1970s, Northwestern Pacific trains and boats were loaded with passengers and freight.
| Author | : Angelo Figone |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : California |
| ISBN | : 9781640085374 |
From the beginning "boom years" of Northern California's lumber traffic to the demise of the Redwood Empire's "Lifeline", this is the 50-year story of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad from 1951 to 2001. The 416-page book documents the challenges and rewards of the Southern Pacific Railroad's unique subsidiary including excerpts from former NWPRR employees "who were there."
| Author | : Paul Castelhun Trimble |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : |
Fascinating history of the numerous electric street railways (interurbans) that once criss-crossed northern California and the San Francisco Bay area. Covers the Interurban Electric Railway (the Big Red Cars), the Key System, the Market Street Railway, the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, the Peninsular Railway, the Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railroad, the Sacramento Northern, and the San Francisco, Napa & Calistoga Railway. There is a roster and map for each railroad line. The book also discusses the Bay area ferry lines (with rosters), smaller streetcar lines, and the "what ifs?" represented by BART. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With list of car builders and ferryboat builders. 199 pages with index.
| Author | : Jeff Moore |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2013-11-04 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1439644241 |
In 1922, the US Forest Service offered one of the largest timber sales in the agencys history, encompassing 890 million board feet of mostly Ponderosa pine timber in the mountains north of Burns, Oregon. Among other requirements, the sale terms required the successful bidder to build and operate 80 miles of common carrier railroad through some of the most remote and undeveloped country in the state. The Fred Herrick Lumber Company and its Malheur Railroad initially won the bidding, only to lose it when a crash in the lumber market forced the company into insolvency. The Edward Hines Lumber Company of Chicago picked up the pieces, and from 1929 until 1984, its subsidiary Oregon & Northwestern Railroad made a living hauling logs, lumber, and occasional livestock between Burns and Seneca, Oregon.
| Author | : Brian Solomon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Railroads |
| ISBN | : 9781610605595 |
History and description of the Union Pacific Railroad.
| Author | : Tom Murray |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9781616731540 |
By the time it was merged into the Union Pacific in 1995, the Chicago & North Western was one of the nations oldest surviving railroads, a testament to the Midwestern stoicism with which it had gone about its business since 1859. This illustrated history chronicles how C&NW emerged from a collection of regional carriers to become a strategic link between eastern railroads and the West. Author Tom Murray traces the railroads expansion as it extended secondary lines throughout the Midwest. He also explores C&NWs joint ownership of UP passenger trains and describes how the railroad answered challenges from regional rivals with the "400" series of passenger trains. As fascinating as the story are the hundreds of accompanying illustrations--historical photographs, archival images, route maps, and period print ads. The result is an entertaining and informative history of an iconic Midwestern railroad--a narrative that spans the decades from the 1850s to the 1990s and takes in steam and diesel motive power, freight and passenger operations, and all the key characters, events, and deals that figured in the Chicago & North Westerns rise and eventual demise.
| Author | : Susan J. P. O'Hara |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2013-11-18 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1439644314 |
The year 2014 marks the centennial of the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP), celebrated by driving a golden spike at Cain Rock in October 1914. This achievement was the culmination of a massive, six-year engineering effort to connect rail lines ending at Willits with the early lumber company railroads of the Humboldt Bay region. When it was completed, the NWP linked Eureka with San Francisco by rail, a milestone in the history of Humboldt and Northern Mendocino Counties. This book examines the impact of the NWP on Northwestern California. Although no longer operational, the railroad today symbolizes the ongoing struggle to connect this isolated region with the wider world.
| Author | : Katy M. Tahja |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0738596213 |
Locomotive steam whistles echo no more in the forests of the north California coast. A century ago, Humboldt and Mendocino Counties had more than 40 railroads bringing logs out of the forest to mills at the water's edge. Only one single railroad ever connected to the outside world, and it too is gone. One railroad survives as the Skunk Train in Mendocino County, and it carries tourists today instead of lumber. Redwood and tan oak bark were the two products moved by rail, and very little else was hauled other than lumberjacks and an occasional picnic excursion for loggers' families. Economic depressions and the advent of trucking saw railroads vanish like a puff of steam from the landscape.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1244 |
| Release | : 1917 |
| Genre | : Railroads |
| ISBN | : |
With an appendix containing a full analysis of the debts of the United States, the several states, municipalities etc.; also statements of street railway and traction companies, industrial corporations, etc.
| Author | : John Kelly |
| Publisher | : Enthusiast Books |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2007-05-01 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9781583881866 |
“All aboard the streamlined, Vista-Dome North Coast Limited leaving on Track 1 for Minnesota’s Lake Region, the vast prairies of North Dakota, Montana’s magnificent Rockies, Idaho’s lakes and forests, the Inland Empire of Spokane to Puget Sound country, and the great seaports of Seattle-Tacoma and Portland.” The Northern Pacific was always a progressive leader in railroading, and was the first to offer sleeping and dining car service from St. Paul to the Pacific Northwest. Covering the 30s through the '60s, this book's outstanding vintage photography highlights the North Coast Limited (the finest passenger train in North America), the faster Vista-Dome passenger trains, NP's team and diesel locomotives, and NP's Freight cars, Maintenance-of-way and Cabooses.
